GRADE - A GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT FOR MULTICOMPUTERS

To provide high-level graphical support for developing message passing programs, an integrated programming environment (GRADE) is being deve loped. GRADE currently provides tools to construct, execute, debug, mo nitor and visualise message-passing based parallel programs. GRADE off ers the programmer an integrated graphical user interface during the w hole life-cycle of program development and provides high-level graphic al programming abstraction mechanisms to construct parallel applicatio ns. The current version of GRADE can generate C+PVM code but there is no theoretical obstacle to extend it for supporting MPI [9] and FORTRA N. Those new features of the GRADE graphical environment are described in the paper that enhanced GRADE towards a professional parallel prog ramming environment.